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18731702020Sampson Low 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The extremely rare first UK edition. Very good in quarter-leather binding decorated in gold gilt. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Sampson Low hardcover books
187315080106Sampson Low 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The 1873 first UK edition and the first illustrated edition in English. Rebound in leather. 1873 on the title page. Very good condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Sampson, Low hardcover books
1869160128001Madrid: Establecimiento Tipografico de Tomas Rey y Compania 1869. First Edition. Very Good. Riou; Hildibrand. First edition in Spanish and the earliest edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea known in book form preceding the French and English editions. Two parts in one volume 247 287 pp. 2 page index with illustrations by Riou and Hildibrand. Brown leather spine over brown pebbled cloth floral patterned end papers. Rubbing soiling and light chipping to cloth. Several stains to fore edge. Pages toned with foxing and occasional staining. One page toward rear is torn missing the bottom quarter. Rear hinge is exposed though binding is intact. An exceptionally rare copy of Verne's science fiction masterpiece. Establecimiento Tipografico de Tomas Rey y Compania unknown books
1873009847James R. Osgood and Company 1873. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. True First Edition.1/60 Surviving Copies. Printing Lost in Fire. Green Cloth with Jelly Fish on Front Cover. Rebacked Spine. Very Good copy with Ownership Inscriptions.Excellent Copy of a Very Scarce First Edition. James R. Osgood and Company Hardcover books
18741507268Scribner Armstrong 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A first edition first state of the first American edition of this timeless classic. Very good condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Scribner Armstrong hardcover books
18732607London: Sampson Low Martson Low & Searle 1873. First edition in English. Very Good. Rare first English language edition of Verne's classic work preceding the American edition and much scarcer than the 1873 Smith or Osgood US printings. Publisher's original red cloth stamped in black and gilt rebacked with portions of the spine replaced. Original peach end papers with a contemporary gift inscription and Burns Bindery ticket. All page edges gilt. Generally in good condition internally. A young reader has written comments at the end of the book in pencil that could be erased but we've left them as they are kind of charming. Finally publisher's catalogue "For the season 1872-73" has six pages not eight as seen in some other copies. Whether it's lacking the final advertisement leaf or whether it was issued as such we cannot say. A Very Good copy overall of a very scarce book. A similar copy also rebacked and in cloth brought $8750 at auction Heritage 2018.<br/><br/>"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is arguably Verne's masterpiece. As a classic it has aged wonderfully well: it is escapist fun but it still retains its literary and scientific significance. To dismiss it as simply an adventure story does it a disservice.it is also an eerie tale of isolation and madness packed full with geographica; and scientific accuracies that make the fantastic uncomfortably believable" The Guardian. A work of incredible imagination the novel follows the expedition and capture of Professor Pierre Aronnax as he scours the ocean deeps in search of a mysterious "sea monster" reportedly attacking international vessels. As it turns out the fabulous beast spotted off the coast of New York turns out to be the Nautilus a secret underwater ship constructed for and commanded by Captain Nemo. An incredible work of adventure that explores the depths of the human psyche. Very Good. Sampson Low, Martson, Low, & Searle unknown books
18731908008James R. Osgood and Co Boston 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first issue. Book in very good condition. The book is rebacked. Housed in a custom-made foldout case. James R. Osgood and Co, Boston hardcover books
187321091Boston: and Co 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. First fully illustrated US edition. xvi 315pp. Salmon cloth stamped in gold and black bevelled edges dark brown endpapers all edges gilt. With fifty-four plates and an engraved illustration in the text by A. de Neuville and L. Benett and a small drawing by Verne. Introduction by Adrien Marx. Translated by George M. Towle. In his article in the July/August 1996 issue of Firsts Arthur B. Edwards notes that ". there is a fully illustrated Osgood octavo edition published at the end of November 1873 taken from the British sheets. This is titled Around the World in Eighty Days and is very scarce. It seems to have had production problems that caused the spine to crack and chip when the book was read; consequently no 1873 copies have been seen in better than good condition p. 42." Cloth is worn at spine ends spine panel faded hinges a bit tender neatly penned inscription on flyleaf dated Christmas 1873. A very good copy. Barron Anatomy of Wonder 1981 1-165. Gallagher Mistichelli and Van Eerde A30. Taves and Michaluk V011. ; Octavo. <br/><br/> and Co hardcover books
1873WN6776Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1873. Green cloth with gilt and black titling and decorations. Jelly fish on upper board. Singular "Sea" point on the binding versus "Seas" on half-title and title pages. 'The End' at bottom p. 303 as called for. Binding is considerably worn especially at spine ends and on edges and boards are rubbed. Binding very loose but intact. Small hole at top of ffep. Owner neat pencil signature on ffep. It is said that most of this first American edition was destroyed in a Boston fire. . First American Edition. Cloth. Fair/Poor/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. James R. Osgood and Company Hardcover books
18731701020Scribner Armstrong 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Scribner Armstrong & Co. 1873 but stated 1874. FIRST edition FIRST printing FIRST State: Scarce true First state of the First edition of this title published before the deluxe edition and has a completely different board design. Scribner Armstrong & Co. on the bottom of the spine. 52 illustratons by Riou. The original French edition came out in 1864. Scribner Armstrongs first American edition came out in November 1873 though dated 1874. On the front cloth is the gilt scene of a waterfall and a raft and titles. Original front cover and spine laid down on matching blue cloth. With new matching end papers. All pages are present and overall remarkably clean for a Verne book. Please see many detailed images. A very handsome example of this scarce title in very clean collectible condition. Housed in a felt lined custom-made collectors slipcase. Scribner, Armstrong hardcover books
18741701026Scribner Armstrong 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Scribner Armstrong & Co. 1873 but stated 1874. FIRST edition FIRST printing FIRST State: Scarce true First state of the First edition of this title published before the deluxe edition and has a completely different board design. Scribner Armstrong & Co. on the bottom of the spine. 52 illustratons by Riou. The original French edition came out in 1864. Scribner Armstrongs first American edition came out in November 1873 though dated 1874. On the front cloth is the gilt scene of a waterfall and a raft and titles. Original front cover and spine laid down on matching blue cloth. With new matching end papers. All pages are present and overall remarkably clean for a Verne book. Please see many detailed images. A very handsome example of this scarce title in very clean collectible condition. Housed in a custom-made collectors slipcase. $5000. Scribner Armstrong hardcover books
18731803046Gilbert and Rivington 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine first United States edition has the first issue point with the year "1873" printed on the title page. Rebacked with original green publisher's cloth lightly worn at spine corners and gutters. Very light foxing at endpapers and on some pages. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Gilbert and Rivington hardcover books
18731704250Hetzel 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing of this illustrated edition. Inscribed by Jules Verne on an attached card. With printer's code 1757-73 on page 220 variant with printer's imprint on title leaf verso measuring 76 mm. instead of 82 mm. Verne's most popular novel published in English as Around the World in 80 Days. Leather rubbed at edges scattered foxing throughout still a sound tight very good copy. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Hetzel hardcover books
1875109382London: Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1875. First editions in English of each volume in Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island trilogy. Octavo three volumes in the original publisher's pictorial cloth all edges gilt illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispieces. Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. Each volume is in very good condition. Ownership inscriptions. A very sharp set. Often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction" French novelist Jules Verne had a wide influence on on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth 1864 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 1870 and Around the World in Eighty Days 1873. Verne's The Mysterious Island is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle Robinson indicating the influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Johann David Wyss' Swiss Family Robinson on the thematic structure of the trilogy. In September of 1875 Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle published the first British edition of Mysterious Island in three volumes entitled Dropped from the Clouds The Abandoned and The Secret of the Island. The trilogy has been adapted numerous times for film television and radio broadcast. Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle hardcover books
18781811011Porter & Coates 1878. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. An early US edition from 1878 in very rare dust jacket. Later impression of an early US edition. Near fine in dust jacket in very good condition. Osgood published the first US edition in 1873 in two versions -- unillustrated and illustrated. Osgood then sold the plates and the unbound remainder of the sheets of the illustrated edition to Porter & Coates which then republished the book in December 1876. Based on titles advertised on this copy this copy appears to be from 1878. Housed in a cloth slipcase. Porter & Coates hardcover books
1873012627James R. Osgood and Company 1873. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Excellent Fresh Copy With The Spine Rebacked. Very Scarce First Issue. Matching Dates on Title & Copyright Pages.Scarce in this Condition. Beautiful Copy. James R. Osgood and Company Hardcover books
1877105701877. The Courier of the Czar. Translated by W. H. G. Kingston. Revised by Julius Chambers. With Ninety Full-Page Illustrations. New York: Scribner Armstrong & Company 1877. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt beveled. First Illustrated and first hard-bound American Edition of this historical tale of adventure taking place during a Siberian revolt by the Tartars. The czar must get a message to his brother the arch-duke in Irkutsk for which he chooses his best courier Michael Strogoff. The first publication in English in October 1876 was in a wrappered American edition by Frank Leslie; Sampson Low's U. K. edition came out two months later in December 1876 despite the 1877 date on the title page. This Scribner Armstrong edition came out a few weeks later in January 1877; it sold so well that by February a third edition was being advertised. This copy is in green cloth one of several colors used without priority we have also had terra-cotta and red. It is in fine condition with scarcely any wear or soil. We have never seen a copy in better condition. Taves & Michaluk V015; Edwards 15. unknown books
18731511011Osgood 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good first US illustrated edition with 1873 on the title page. Very rare. Preceded by a few months by a small unillustrated edition that is far more common. Because of a publishing defect rarely seen in this condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. James R. Osgood and Company Boston Massachusetts U.S.A. 1873. Benot L. with various engravers steel engravings illustrator. A true first edition with 1873 publication notice entered at the Office of the Librarian of Congress and 1873 printed at the bottom of the title page. The title was first published serially in 1872 in the French newspaper "Le Temps" as "Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingt Jours. Osgood hardcover books
18731701028James R. Osgood & Company Boston 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First fully illustrated edition. A very good first US illustrated edition with 1873 on the title page. Very rare. Published a few months after a small unillustrated edition that is far more common. Because of a publishing defect rarely seen in this condition. James R. Osgood and Company Boston Massachusetts U.S.A. 1873. Benot L. with various engravers steel engravings illustrator. A true first edition with 1873 publication notice entered at the Office of the Librarian of Congress and 1873 printed at the bottom of the title page. The title was first published serially in 1872 in the French newspaper "Le Temps" as "Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingt Jours." Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. $3000. James R. Osgood & Company, Boston hardcover books
189395153London: Sampson Low Marston & Company 1893. Rare first edition of Verne's Gothic mystery novel that likely inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. Octavo original illustrated cloth gilt titles to the spine and front panel top edge gilt pictorial endpapers engraved frontispiece illustrated with numerous engravings. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable. Verne's The Castle of the Carpathians centres on the story of Count Franz de Telek a visitor to the village of Werst in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania who is inspired to visit the region after hearing that the town's villagers believe that the devil has come to inhabit its castle. The novel was likely the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Gothic horror novel Dracula published five years later in 1897 and featuring the character of Count Dracula also of Transylvania. Sampson Low, Marston & Company hardcover books
1873143731873. a handsome copy Translated from the French. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1873. 32 pp ads dated October 1872. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt beveled all edges gilt.<br/><br/> First British Edition also the first edition in the English language. Three Englishmen. and three Russians. and their guide a bushman named Mokoum set out to measure the arc of a meridian in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. Everything is going well until war is declared between England and Russia. Kytasaari This tale was initially published in the original French in 1872 as AVENTURES DE TROIS RUSSES ET DE TROIS ANGLAIS DANS L'AFRIQUE AUSTRALE. Sampson Low's English edition titled MERIDIANA with the subtitle's nationalities reversed in favor of the Englishmen was issued in November 1872 but was dated 1873 as here. In the same month some of these copies printed and bound in England were exported to the U.S. and equipped with the title page of Scribner's import house Scribner Welford and Armstrong likewise dated 1873 -- technically the American issue of the first English edition and extremely scarce today. Scribner Armstrong sans Welford then published the first edition actually produced in America; there was also an unauthorized American edition by Shepard titled ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF THE BEHEMOTH with an altered translation and fewer illustrations published on the very same day. This edition has one of the great Verne pictorial bindings: a phalanx of crocodiles hungrily approaches an oblivious man holding a parasol. This copy is in green cloth one of several colors used without priority and has an ad catalogue dated October 1872 -- which we think is the earliest date we have also seen October 1873. The volume is just a little askew as always and a few gatherings stand slightly proud but this is a fine bright copy without any restoration or "improvement" of any kind. An early Verne edition that is quite scarce in this condition. Taves & Michaluk V009; Myers 39. unknown books
1876146271876. a handsome set Together three volumes. Translated from the French by W.H.G. Kingston. Second Edition. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1876. 3 pp undated ads in Part III. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. First English Edition second impression of all three volumes that were sold separately but which together form one of Verne's greatest tales. The translation unfortunately was effected by W.H.G. Kingston whose translation changed the hero's name from Smith to Harding. Further Kingston abridged or omitted many of the technical passages indicating the castaway's scientific development of the island. Verne's anti-imperialist sentiments expressed by the dying Captain Nemo were also reversed by Kingston so as not to offend English readers. Unfortunately Kingston's became the standard translation to this day inflicting his omissions and distortions on English-language readers. T&M Sampson Low's first edition all three volumes dated 1875 in a variety of cloth colors came out in September 1875. T&M records their second impression as coming out in February 1879 -- but here we have the second impression of all three volumes with "Second Edition" on each title page all dated 1876. The three Sampson Low first impressions seldom turn up on the market as a set especially in the same color cloth; these second impressions only in green are quite scarce as well as evidenced by T&M's not having seen them. In any event this is a handsome matched set of the English second impression page edges plain the first impression's page edges were gilded. All three volumes are in attractive just-about-fine condition with scarcely any external soil or wear only the very slightest of rubbing at the edges; a few leaves at each end of each volume have light foxing; even the original delicate peach-colored endpapers are clean and uncracked. Given the extreme scarcity of the first impressions over several decades we have offered only one set in this condition at $22500 this set of second impressions is highly collectible. Taves & Michaluk V013. unknown books
1881L0201b2 volumes. The Demon of Cawnpore 262foldout map1 blank8 ad pages with frontispiece and 48 plates. Small octavo 7 ½" x 5 ¾" bound in original publisher's gilt and black stamped blue cloth spine in pictorial black and gilt cover beveled edges; Tigers and Traitors 2468 ad pages with frontispiece 46 illustrations and fold out map. Small octavo 7 ½" x 5 ¾" bound in original publisher's gilt and black stamped brown cloth spine in pictorial black and gilt cover beveled edges. Translated from the French by Agnes D Kingston. Illustrated by Leon Bennett. Illustrated by Leon Bennett. Gallagher Mistichelli and Van Eerde A48. Taves and Michaluk V021 First American illustrated edition. First published in the US by George Munro in the Seaside Library Series.<br /><br />The Steam House French: La maison à vapeur is an 1880 Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant. Verne uses the mechanical house as a plot device to have the reader travel in nineteenth century India. The descriptions are interspersed with historical information and social commentary. The book takes place in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against British rule with the passions and traumas aroused still very much alive among Indians and British alike. An alternate title by which the book was known - "The End of Nana Sahib" - refers to the appearance in the book of the historical figure Rebel leader Nana Sahib who disappeared after the crushing of the rebellion his ultimate fate unknown. Verne offers a fictional explanation to his disappearance. The first part was The Steam House was titled The Demon of Cawnpore the second part Tigers and Traitors.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />The Deamon of Cawnpore Light foxing to page ends crease at map corer rubbing to spine ends and points. The Tigers and Traitors small unobtrusive bookseller's label to front gutter paste down else better than very good brite set. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1891012542Cassell Publishing Company 1891. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Beautiful Very Fine copy in Light Green Boards. First Edition 1891. Very Rare in This Condition.Beautiful Fresh Tight Copy. Scarce Verne Title. Cassell Publishing Company Hardcover books
1894010837Merriam Co. 1894. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American Edition.Near Fine Copy1894. Very Clean Copy in Dark Green Decorative Boards. No Foxing. Beautiful Fresh Copy of a Very Scarce Book. Merriam Co. Hardcover books
